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Breach of confidentiality often plays a key role in legal malpractice claims. In a recent post, we discussed the link between violations of attorney-client confidentiality and legal malpractice. Today, we explore how another sort of confidentiality worked against a...
A recent litigation matter in another state is representative of the type of attorney malpractice cases that arise with some frequency in Los Angeles and elsewhere throughout Southern California. We pass along its relevant details to our readers, given its interest...
By the nature of the job, attorneys often have access to their clients’ personal information. To get the best representation possible, clients often have to tell their lawyer things they cannot tell anybody else. One way the law encourages total honesty between...
When choosing an attorney to handle their legal matter, many people in California want to know whether their prospective attorney has legal malpractice insurance. State law requires that lawyers disclose whether they have malpractice insurance, but they are not...
Nobody wants to go through the distressing and expensive experience of being represented by an incompetent or outright crooked attorney. Most attorneys are honest and hardworking, but sometimes people find themselves the victim of legal malpractice. They get torpedoed...
There are a great many deadlines in legal matters. One of the very important deadlines that can be present when it comes to legal cases are statutes of limitations. Generally, the state's civil statutes of limitations put time limits on how long after an incident...
Most of us in Los Angeles try to be ethical at all times, even if we do not have an official list of ethics to follow. Many professions do have rules of ethics, including attorneys. State bar associations require their members to abide by several rules of ethics....
An attorney who does not provide his or her clients the standard of care owed to them has very little chance of helping them prevail in their legal matter. If clients who are let down in this way were unable to sue their former lawyers for legal malpractice, they...
Many clients trust their attorney with more than their personal information. Many transactions require that the attorney hold onto some of the client’s money or other valuables, at least for awhile. Someone who handles money that belongs to another party is called a...
A person who hires an attorney for help with a legal matter has the right to expect that the lawyer taking his or her case does not have a conflict of interest. We spoke about conflict of interest on Sept. 9. It is a form of legal malpractice in which the offending...